Proprietary /(?)/

Pro·pri·e·ta·ry

Proprietary

n.

pl. Proprietaries

  1. A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.
  2. A body proprietors, taken collectively.
  3. A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession. (Eccl.)

Proprietary

a.
  1. Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.

Phrases & Compounds

Proprietary articles
manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell.